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Nic Jones was an acclaimed English folk singer and guitarist, part of the late 1960s British folk revival, whose career came to an abrupt end in 1982 as the result of car accident that left him with severe coordination problems. From his 1980 album Penguin Eggs, here is is singing the early 19th century traditional ballad Canadee-i-o.
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  2. I’m in Phoenix, Arizona. Tomorrow night, after my meeting, I plan on heading out to the Occupy Phoenix site and see if I can get some interviews.

  5. The street protests draw our attention to a troubling inequity in our society — 1% of the population breaks 99% of the windows.

  9. Well Kate,
    you posted that clip on the Mongolian horse race awhile back. Well my wife has 2 horses, so you can imagine that she is into horses and such things. I e-mailed her the clip. Well don’t you know she applied and last week herself and a friend got the phone call from one of the organisers to be interviewed. We will find out next week whether or not they are accepted in the first round. If not, they still have a chance to be selected in December.
    Thanx Kate!
    I’ll keep you posted.

  10. Another cracker, EBD. Big fan of Nic Jones, me.
    His work on June Tabor’s “Airs and Graces” still floors me; especially the galloping guitar arrangement he wrote for the song “Bonny May”. Great, great stuff.
    Many thanks – again.

  11. Join the fun in Saskatoon:
    “Canadian protests against corporate greed and economic imbalance are planned across the country this weekend.
    Graham Goff, who will be participating in the Occupy Saskatoon Protest tomorrow (Sat) says the protests are about the growing corporate influences on our democratic governments.
    He says those governments should be deriving their power from the people who elect them but instead are catering to big business.
    Goff says when we are told there’s an economic boom in Saskatchewan, we have to ask ourselves for whom, because statistics show the majority of people are two paycheques away from bankruptcy.
    The Saskatoon protest will start outside the U of S Senate meeting at 9:15 tomorrow (Sat).
    At noon, as many as 4 hundred protesters, will march down the University Bridge to Friendship Park on River Landing where some plan to camp out for the next while. ”
    http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35689&Itemid=421

  14. Dwayne Lingenfelter wants to start negotiating with first nations on a Resource Sharing Model. Perry Bellguard, ex FSIN chief says Sask has 14 percent First Nations and figures that equals 400,000,000 dollars per year. That is 400 million. Lingenfelter is a snake oil salesman. Any Indian who believes this man is sincere is an idiot. Remember what Lingenfelter did to the Indians in Meadow Lake while he was running for leader of the NDP. He bought 1000 illegal NDP party memberships for Indians and made a laughing stock of them. If the Indians believe Lingenfelter is sincere then they are just plain stupid.

  15. syncrodox, I’ll maybe wander down there and count them …
    They may have hired 400 ‘protesters’ and are optimistic that most of them will show up for work!

  16. Stan
    I will be making an appearance at Occupy Calgary with my crew. Three 21 yr. olds, one 26 and one 50.
    We’re collectively curious about the meritocrasy the occupy folks embody…snork…

  18. Thanks Stan. Had to chuckle at “Goff says when we are told there’s an economic boom in Saskatchewan, we have to ask ourselves for whom, because statistics show the majority of people are two paycheques away from bankruptcy.”
    Could he stop to think how many fewer paycheques there would be if we get rid of the corporations?

  19. Stan, if these useful idiots of George Soros are going to stay there for a while they had better dress warm and have arctic sleeping bags what with forecasts of minus temperatures at night and highs of 9/10 during the day.

  20. Continued. .. It’s fortunate for us all that corporations are better at money managment than the 2 paycheques from bankruptcy people.

  22. Another troubling statistic … 1% of the people are 99% of the people that the media can actually hear.

  23. A pact signed in Jewish blood
    The deal that Netanyahu has agreed to is signed with the blood of the past victims and future victims of the terrorists he is letting go. No amount of rationalization by Netanyahu, his cheerleaders in the demented mass media, and by the defeatist, apparently incompetent heads of the Shin Bet, Mossad and IDF can dent the facts.
    http://carolineglick.com/

  24. Just bought Donna LaFramboise’s book. Its my first electronic book and I have to wonder how cheaply you could buy a book manufacturer for! I’d be surprised if they all didn’t go out of business given a book that would normally be $20.00 plus shipping to a store or your house can be bought $4 and change.
    The world she changin’

  25. Socialism: “**once even a judge come here looking for food.”
    “*“Lower wages and higher taxes to prevent the collapse of the welfare state,” announces Público.”
    The natural end result of socialism, the religion of the stomach.
    “**Lisbon’s food bank supplies 250 local charities, helping to feed more than 150,000 people.”
    …-
    “**’The hunger line starts here'”
    “Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the human stories behind the European debt crisis”
    “Over the past few months,” says José Almeida, a retired mining engineer who instead (as he puts it) of playing golf now helps run Portugal’s Food Banks, “we’ve had lawyers, engineers … once even a judge come here looking for food.”
    Lisbon’s Banco Alimentar, operated by 15 full-time staff and some 150 volunteers, is apparently the largest in Europe. In a sprawling, whitewashed goods shed next to Alcantara railway station, it processes 12,000 tonnes of food a year, roughly as much as the rest of the country’s 10 food banks put together.
    Last year the 150-odd local charities it distributes food to (it is not allowed to donate to individuals) helped feed 150,000-160,000 people, a figure that has been growing steadily over the past two or three years.
    “That’s a big part of the drama we’re living through,” says José. “The people who are asking for food are not the kind you would usually expect. [There are] couples who both had good jobs, and a high standard of living. Then one of them is made redundant and they can’t keep it up: they can’t afford the car, the rent or mortgage, the children’s school … and they’re turning to charity.”
    The food bank never, he says, has enough to meet demand. José is worried about supplies into the future: around 20% of the bank’s food is funded by an EU aid programme to exceptionally deprived families, which is about to be axed.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/12/portuga-europe-on-the-breadline
    …-
    “”*“Lower wages and higher taxes to prevent the collapse of the welfare state,” announces Público.”
    “Portugal: Drastic measures to stave off collapse”
    “Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has tabled the most austere budget since the return of democracy to the country in 1974. “Lower wages and higher taxes to prevent the collapse of the welfare state,” announces Público.“Almost a million people will lose holiday and Christmas benefits,” which represent a 13th and a 14th month’s salary, leads the Lisbon daily. Working hours in the private sector will go up, public holidays will be fewer, VAT will go up and there will a reduction in income tax discounts. Passos Coelho has justified these “painful” measures for the fiscal slippage of three billion euros in order to reverse Portugal’s “downward economic spiral”.
    “The country has witnessed one of the most important and dramatic messages of recent years,” Público confirms in an editorial. “The prime minister has confirmed to the Portuguese that the battle they have waged has gone well beyond merely outracing a financial crisis. The issue now is the collapse of the country.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793079/posts

  26. Here’s the “interview”—more like an ambush—by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell with Herman Cain. What a despicable and loathsome person O’Donnell is. The contrast with the composed and intelligent Cain, who never once lost his temper, while managing to hold O’Donnell’s feet to the fire, is telling.
    The left is getting desperate. Like thwarted toddlers, these out of control narcissists—with no self-control in their repertoire to moderate their behaviour—lash out more often and more viciously. Lawrence O’Donnell is typical of these cretins: an entitled, self-referential bully.
    Here are Parts 1 and 2 of O’Donnell’s bear pit session:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjl5iaSG6I
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7GbNtQlFo
    I have a very high regard for Herman Cain: if he’s the Republican candidate, the Democrats’ race baiting will be seriously undercut. Debates with Obama will be a pleasure to watch: the angry, tongue-tied, truth-challenged narcissist will be no match for the “comfortable in his skin”, straight shooter, Cain, who, I believe, like a Papa Bear, will make mincemeat of the over reaching cub.

  27. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Wherein: Red Mao Stlong* shoots the kulaks**.
    “An effort to reform China’s forestry industry – which was supposed to help close the wide wealth chasm between the country’s rural and urban halves – resulted instead in a parade of swindlers and middlemen to places like Anjia, persuading the locals to sign away the usage rights to their land for a pittance, then selling it to bigger foreign and domestic companies that were looking to cash in on one of the biggest property transfers in history.”
    …-
    “The empire Sino-Forest built and the farmers who paid the price”
    “In the case of Anjia and three other towns around it, the end buyer was Sino-Forest Corp. TRE-T, a Toronto-listed company run by a Hong Kong entrepreneur, Allen Chan, who devised a way to profit from that land shift and from Canadian investors’ hunger for a Chinese growth story. By accumulating tracts of forestland all over China – then raising billions of dollars from investors to do it over and over again – Sino-Forest grew to be the largest forestry firm on the Toronto Stock Exchange, at one point valued at some $6-billion, until it came crashing down this summer under allegations of massive fraud. In late August, Mr. Chan quit as chief executive officer and four other executives were put on leave or stripped of their duties while the company and the Ontario Securities Commission investigate.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/sinoforest/the-empire-sino-forest-built-and-the-farmers-who-paid-the-price/article2201901/
    *Maurice Strong is Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae’s uncle Mo.
    **H/T Red Lenin/Stalin

  30. 889 km of driving across Saskatchewan & Alberta yesterday afternoon & evening … and finally got to meet a very special lady you all know … of. An absolutely great & memorable day!!

  31. “Graham Goff, who will be participating in the Occupy Saskatoon Protest tomorrow (Sat) says the protests are about the growing corporate influences on our democratic governments. ”
    Shouldn’t we ask ourselves how much growing influence big unions have on our democratic governments??? I mean, obviously they have the resources and will to put together and stage all of these Occupy protests all over North America…

  32. O’Richard: Moi-I am not a crook*.
    Ask Deep Throat*.
    …-
    “On Solyndra: President’s Blackberry Off Limits”
    “Congress isn’t getting a glimpse of what’s on President Barack Obama’s Blackberry – or any more internal White House communications related to the bankrupt solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government.
    House Republicans investigating the loan controversy had requested all internal White House documents about the issue. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chair Rep. Cliff Stearns said that includes emails on the President’s Blackberry.
    On Friday the White House Counsel sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee explaining they won’t comply with the request because it “implicates longstanding and significant institutional Executive Branch confidentiality interests.”
    The response is hardly a surprise given past administrations’ refusal to comply with similar congressional requests. The difference here? President Obama is the first Chief Executive to carry a Blackberry, so it’s the first time a White House counsel has – even indirectly – turned down an attempt to peek at his email. Neither the Blackberry nor his personal email is explicitly mentioned in the letter.”
    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/14/source-white-house-will-not-turn-over-all-solyndra-documents/?iref=allsearch
    …-
    “*Nixon source ‘Deep throat’ dies aged 95”
    “Mark Felt, the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as “Deep Throat”, died yesterday aged 95.
    As the associate director of the FBI, Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration’s attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
    A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies, he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story. It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover, admitting in 2006: “I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat.””
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nixon-source-deep-throat-dies-aged-95-1204688.html

  34. I just found out that Steven Spielberg has made, or is making a film called War Horse. The film is about a horse but the events of the film include the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) great charge at Moreuil Wood, where Lt Flowerdew was awarded the Victoria Cross. I will have to see this film. I hope he does it justice.

  35. Israel is reportedly doing an exchange of 1027 Palestinian prisoners to secure the release of Sergeant Gilad Shalit.
    Now we know the exchange rate IDF:PAL

  38. Check out this video at the Toronto OCW, of a guy with a megaphone and a placard that reads “Karl Marx was Wrong” and “1989: The Wall Came Down.”
    The Only Sane Man At Occupy Toronto…”Karl Marx Was Wrong”: http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/
    A menacing Occupy Toronto Marshall tries to shut him up: ‘doesn’t work.
    Yipee! And Yahoo! I like this guy.

  39. Socialist deathcare occupies Ottawa clinic.
    Framer of deathcare, The Reverend TC Douglas, has not returned calls to reporters.
    …-
    “Thousands possibly exposed to infection at Ottawa clinic”
    “Ottawa Public Health is warning that as many as 6,800 people may have come into contact with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV while undergoing an undisclosed procedure at an Ottawa clinic.
    The city’s chief medical officer, Dr. Isra Levy, announced Saturday that patients of the clinic will be notified of their potential exposure to disease early next week by letter.
    The patients who will receive letters will have visited the clinic over a 10-year span dating back from spring of this year.”
    http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111015/thousands-possibly-exposed-to-infection-at-ottawa-clinic-111015/20111015?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

  40. My views, as an accompaniment to the vid link I provided above, on the OCW movement (after watching Michael Coren on SunTV last night: You can watch the vid at Blazing Cat Fur).
    What the Hell is it about all of these disaffected Brits who’ve come to Canada?
    Bitter Brits, John Clarke (founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) and the ubiquitous Sid Ryan of the Ontario Federation of Labour (gag), having left England and Ireland for our fair land, brought all of their socialist bile and crap over here, which have turned into a mighty lucrative industry for them. I’d love to know what Sid Ryan’s salary is — I’m sure it’s a lot more than any of the “workers” he represents.
    It always amuses me, in a black sort of way, that though these guys are “against capitalism,” they’re actually parasitic worms living off the avails of capitalism. There’d be no money for the labourers represented by Sid Ryan’s OFL or for Clarke’s OCAP without capitalism, without the entrepreneurial initiatives of “capitalists.”
    Then, look at all of the Occupy Wall Street types (pointed out at countless blogs), walking around with their i-pads, i-pods, i-phones, social networking their next moves. How did a lot of them get to New York? Not on donkeys, horses, or chuck wagons.
    What a bunch of delusional, parasitic hypocrites. They want all of the pleasure, ease, and entertainment which capitalism provides but they want to pretend that they could have it all without the entrepreneurial genius and enterprise of capitalists.These guys all want something — heck, everything — for nothing.
    They disgust me.

  41. So, from where did Shelly get her stunning purple gown? I suspect from some capitalist pig.]
    Oink. Oink.

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